Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Introduction
- Chap. I The Town-Country Magnet
- Chap. II The Revenue of Garden City, and how it is obtained—The Agricultural Estate
- Chap. III The Revenue of Garden City—Town Estate
- Chap. IV The Revenue of Garden City—General Observations on its Expenditure
- Chap. V Further Details of Expenditure on Garden City
- Chap. VI Administration
- Chap. VII Semi-Municipal Enterprise—Local Option—Temperance Reform
- Chap. VIII Pro-Municipal Work
- Chap. IX Administration—A Bird's Eye View
- Chap. X Some Difficulties Considered
- Chap. XI A Unique Combination of Proposals
- Chap. XII The Path followed up
- Chap. XIII Social Cities
- Chap. XIV The Future of London
- APPENDIX: Water-Supply
- INDEX
- Plate section
Chap. I - The Town-Country Magnet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Introduction
- Chap. I The Town-Country Magnet
- Chap. II The Revenue of Garden City, and how it is obtained—The Agricultural Estate
- Chap. III The Revenue of Garden City—Town Estate
- Chap. IV The Revenue of Garden City—General Observations on its Expenditure
- Chap. V Further Details of Expenditure on Garden City
- Chap. VI Administration
- Chap. VII Semi-Municipal Enterprise—Local Option—Temperance Reform
- Chap. VIII Pro-Municipal Work
- Chap. IX Administration—A Bird's Eye View
- Chap. X Some Difficulties Considered
- Chap. XI A Unique Combination of Proposals
- Chap. XII The Path followed up
- Chap. XIII Social Cities
- Chap. XIV The Future of London
- APPENDIX: Water-Supply
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
“I will not cease from mental strife,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.”
—Blake.“No scene is continuously and untiringly loved but one rich by joyful human labour, smooth in field, fair in garden, full in orchard, trim, sweet, and frequent in homestead, ringing with voices of vivid existence. No air is sweet that is silent; it is only sweet when full of low currents of undersound, triplets of birds, and murmur and chirp of insects, and deep-toned words of men, and wayward trebles of childhood. As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary—the wild flower by the wayside as well as the tended corn, and the wild birds and creatures of the forest as well as the tended cattle, because man doth not live by bread only, but also by the desert manna, by every wondrous word and unknowable work of God.”
—Mr. J. Ruskin, “Unto This Last.”The reader is asked to imagine an estate of some such shape as that shown in Diagram 2, embracing an estate of 6,000 acres, which is at present purely agricultural, and has been obtained by purchase in the open market at a cost of £40 an acre, or £240,000. The purchase money is supposed to have been raised on mortgage debentures, bearing interest at an average rate not exceeding £4 per cent.
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- To-morrowA Peaceful Path to Real Reform, pp. 12 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1898